Custom

Filmed at Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, we cast select publishers in a series that is part travel video, part narrative, and wholly distinctive.

Hightail

OneSpot

IBM

Sysomos

Media Trust

Viacom

Visual IQ

Custom

PulsePoint

Working with the world’s best brands

What We Do

We create modern, meaningful content

We start with rigorous editorial standards, then develop robust creative approaches and cap it all off with beautiful design and far-reaching distribution.

We’ve got the tools to make your voice heard

Content Strategy

Content Development

Social Media Management

Research

Design

Events and Audience Development

Content Strategy

We’re here to understand your audience — not just who they are, but how they absorb information — and maximize your messaging to its fullest potential.

Content Development

We bring our high editorial standards and high production polish to bear in all the content we produce, from digital articles to interactive mobile games.

Social Media Management

It’s all about accessibility. We’ll build brand loyalty and awareness through innovative social content and campaigns.

Research

An idea is nothing without strong data behind it. Our team is dedicated to scoping out the information that will bolster an effective, credible campaign.

Design

Your visual identity should be eye-catching, current, and completely you. Let your brand’s story begin before the words are even on the page.

Events and Audience Development

Go from URL to IRL and reach audiences on all platforms with our branded events and unique user experiences.

1 million

Monthly Web Users

200k

Email Subscribers

750k

Social Followers

7k

Event Attendents

We craft the message, then deliver it

We’re part of Digiday Media, so we know our audience isn’t just a collection of “decision makers” or “users.” They drive business, they shape culture and they live both. When you want to know what they want to hear, you call us.

What we make

eBooks

Videos

Podcasts

Infographics

Environments

Events

eBooks

Our eBooks are substantive, imaginative and designed to be the launching pad for well-rounded content campaigns.

You want the right people in the right place at the right time. We can get them there and curate an experience they’ll never forget.

About Us

We are Custom

We’re an ambitious crew bent on moving beyond the usual “decision-maker” cliches of B2B content marketing and advertising. We work inside Digiday Media, named one of Fast Company’s Ten Most Innovative Media Companies in the world.

Our Leadership Team

Ivy Liu, Creative Director

Ivy designs, creates, and imagines at the intersection of digital, motion and print. Her primary objective is to deliver solutions that are powerful and meaningful yet aesthetically beautiful and sophisticated. She is passionate about interaction design, user experience, branding and everything visual.

Nick Friese, Founder & CEO

Founder and CEO of Digiday Media, a global media company dedicated to rethinking and reshaping the business of media and content. Under his leadership, Digiday Media was named one of Fast Company’s top ten most innovative media companies in the world, Inc Magazine’s fastest growing companies in 2013, 2014, and 2015, and named one of the fastest growing businesses in NYC.

David Amrani, Head of Strategy & Executive Producer

With a focus on product and campaign strategy, David leads the team to conceive, plan and produce digital-first initiatives for media and tech clients. Through studying how and why certain things (ideas, assets, movements) spread through networks, he knows how the web works and makes digital things that feel at home there.

Lucia Morris, Account Manager

Lucia, better known as Lu, hails from South Florida. She is CUSTOM’s lead gen queen, social media starlet and data guru. When she’s not at 26 Mercer St, you can catch her training for the Chicago Marathon or ordering UberEATS.

Stephanie Rogers, Account Manager

With over 8 years of Account Management experience, Stephanie packed up her life and moved from Melbourne, Australia to New York. A passion for media, entertainment and technology led her to work with companies at the forefront of industry innovation - always with client service and relationship building at heart.

Steve Schiff, Senior Digital Producer

Steve brings more than a decade of writing, editing, and production experience to the Custom team, with a New York Emmy and, yes, a Digiday Content Marketing Award to his name. When he's not finding innovative ways to help Custom clients tell their stories, Steve is running up and down the cliffs and riverfront of Hudson County, New Jersey in preparation for his next marathon and traveling with his wife and son.

David Teich, Digital Media Writer

David Teich is Custom’s Digital Media Writer. An NYU journalism grad, he covered digital media for Cynopsis, and wrote about indie film for IndieNYC.com. Unrelated: The North American Scrabble Players Association ranks him as the 370th best tournament player in North America. If you want to know all nine of the seven-letter anagrams for the tiles A-N-T-I-E-R-S, just ask him.

Samantha Dupler, Copywriter

Samantha Dupler is Custom's copywriter. With past experience at Condé Nast and The Foundry at Time Inc., she's thrilled to bring her editorial and content marketing skills to the Custom team. When she's not at her laptop, you'll find Samantha at her microphone — she's also a professional voice actress (credited as Ivy) who has appeared in several video games and commercials, even voicing a Marvel superhero in a mobile game.

Walter Mason, Junior Digital Marketing Coordinator

Walter is the Junior Digital Marketing Coordinator for Custom. He recently graduated with his master’s degree in marketing from Molloy College and has vowed to never go back to school. In his spare time, Walter channels his passion for music into his own management firm called invtONLY MGMT and is the proud father of a 1 year-old Border Collie named Remy.

Join our team

We want big thinkers who’ll do the little things that make work great. If you’re one of those, drop us a line.